Empty Space: 40+ Stunning Minimalistic Book Covers
posted on 12th July 2010 by Callum Chapman with the tags: "Books", "Minimalistic", "Print" .
Minimalism is a popular style used in graphic design and illustration, and is widely used in book cover design, helping the user to focus on the title of the book and the authors name. The book cover design is often elegant, using icon design and photography and illustration.
This showcase features over 40 stunning minimalistic book cover designs, including links to Amazon where you can purchase the books for yourself. What’s your favourite?
If you have your own digital examples you should send them to a booklet printing service and have them delivered!
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Phil Stringfellow 12 Jul 2010
Great list! I have mention the first three books by Russell Andrews though – Gideon, Icarus and Aphrodite. Great minimalistic designs, and no hint as to how great the stories inside are.
Robert 12 Jul 2010
Awesome article Callum! I really like the “Moral Relativism” cover, might have to buy the book
Adriana 12 Jul 2010
Great article! I really like the cover for the “Wide awake” book and the one for “Moral relativism”.
Callum Chapman 12 Jul 2010
Thanks everyone! Me too, a few of these books are tempting to buy just because of the covers. I know people shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but that’s hard to do being in the design industry!
Liminal Graphic Design Cornwall 12 Jul 2010
Book covers are such an amazing art and this selection is great. Love the simplicity of An Ethics Of Interrogration and The Crow’s Vow.
Thanks for the post.
Joe 13 Jul 2010
Thankfully, none were crowd sourced for the design!
Katja Nina 29 Jul 2010
such great examples there – truly inspirational!
Anna 25 Aug 2010
Great collection – thanks for putting them together!
Annie 26 Aug 2010
Interesting to see the high percentage of male authors in the selections. I expect this is not particularly a function of the works themselves, but of the predisposition of the designers to associate minimalism with masculinity.
AM 26 Aug 2010
This is a great selection, all so beautifully simple. I wish that it wasn’t a blatant ad for buying books on Amazon though. Can’t we see anything book related on the internet and not have it be linked to Amazon?
anonymous 26 Aug 2010
nice round-up. but would be better with the credits for designers included. think most of these should be readily available online—recognize most.
M. E. Braun 26 Aug 2010
Striking collection of unattributed design; why not identify the designers who created these fine book covers? meb
Wendy Jane Carrel 28 Aug 2010
Hello Callum and thank you for your blog and for assembling these minimalist covers!!! I’ve been collecting covers I like for a while now to reference for clients. You’ve added to my list. Particularly struck by the MORAL RELATIVISM cover as well as the original thoughts behind COLUMBINE, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, and FLYING LEAP. GARDEN STATE interesting as well. If you have yet to discover http://www.lauraklynstra.com do take yourself there, covers that are art work in another way…… Many blessings, Wendy Jane Carrel
FabulousTerrah 28 Aug 2010
Thoroughly enjoyed this post. Cheers!
Alex 4 Apr 2011
I really like the last book cover concept for Patricia Morrisroe’s memoir on insomnia, Wide Awake. A clock outlining the book (and it’s in yellow…, my favorite color as of late, like my car). Having just done a memoir of my own, this was nice to come across. Great, no brilliant, work. Applause to the designer (was it the author herself?)!
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Michael 4 Dec 2011
Nice covers! Good food for the brain!
Now I just do the cover, and this selection very great as example. Thanks!
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